A dust-covered station wagon

2:02 AM,
May 5, 2013

Ron Grubb

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Ron Grubb

I was determined to get my driver's license the day I turned 16, just like my two older brothers had before me.

In 1965, you could take the written test and receive your temporary license, then return seven days later to test for your driver's license. That unbearable one-week wait only recently had been added to the Ohio Code of Motor Vehicles. To further add insult to injury, my brothers had been able to take their temporary test and their driver's test on the same day. ("What about driver's ed?" you ask. Driver's education had just found its way into my sophomore high school curriculum and, ...